Bug 1795259 - aspell: encoding set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 for a string ending with a single '\0' byte leads to a buffer over-read
Summary: aspell: encoding set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 for a string ending with a single '\0'...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1764299
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Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Blocks: 1795260
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Reported: 2020-01-27 14:53 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2020-07-16 07:24 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: aspell 0.60.8
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Last Closed: 2020-02-06 12:39:52 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-01-27 14:53:52 UTC 
libaspell.a in GNU Aspell 0.60 through 0.60.7 has a buffer over-read for a string ending with a single '\0' byte, if the encoding is set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 outside of the application, as demonstrated by the ASPELL_CONF environment variable.

Upstream reference:

http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt
Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2020-02-06 12:39:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1764299 ***
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